Moses Hazeltine Sherman is a great example of the many bright young men who saw the opportunities in the Arizona Territory in the late 1800’s. He...
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Climax Jim
Climax Jim was the darling of the Arizona press during the late 1890s. Thanks to the fertile imaginations of the old timers who knew him and the...
What History Has Taught Me: Jeremy Rowe
Dr. Jeremy Rowe, Photographer, Historian, Scientist Dr. Jeremy Rowe has collected and researched 19th- and early 20th-century photographs and wrote...
Wide Open Spaces and Western Wonderlands
The summer of 2021 is a great time to travel across these Old West highways. The West is a grand place to travel, and its many highways and...
Armed and Courageous
Private Bill Foster wears his Arizona Ranger badge and holds the standard Ranger 1895 Winchester .30-40 lever-action rifle as he stands to the left...
“I’m Your Huckleberry” Has a Double Meaning for Old Tucson
Saving the old girl is more than a dream. Everyone wants to save “Hollywood in the Desert”—the Old Tucson Studios that hosted more than 400 films...
Lights, Camera, Action
In 1939, Columbia Pictures executives agreed with director Wesley Ruggles that an undeveloped desert site west of Tucson was the perfect location in...
Ask the Marshall – Bat Masterson: Armed and Dangerous
How many of Bat Masterson’s Colt SAA revolvers are known to exist, and how many did he own over the years? I have read that he possibly owned seven...
Arizona’s Lost Seaport James Gadsden, Minister to Mexico, had five proposals, the largest would have purchased most of northern Mexico for $50 million.
There’s an enduring legend in Arizona that says the engineer’s surveying the new boundary westward were supposed to make a beeline for the...
Sealed With A Kiss Wyatt Earp engaged in a Jewish ritual while he was on the run.
Sealed With A Kiss Wyatt Earp engaged in a Jewish ritual while he was on the run. When Wyatt Earp fled Arizona after the Vendetta Ride, he and his...
The Town Tamer James Dodson kept a lid on Prescott, Arizona
Prescott, Arizona—unlike so many other Old West towns—was pretty peaceful during the frontier period. Much of the credit goes to James Dodson, who...
Branding The history of one of the West's most iconic symbols!
Branding of livestock dates all the way back to the Egyptians to around 2,700B.C. It spread to Europe in the Middle Ages and was introduced in...